Comments on: The Great Khali Returns

By: Vikram

Vikram — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:54:08 +0000

This is Khali and his wife in a very recent picture.

By: wickanpagan

wickanpagan — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:22:33 +0000

This site here states that the lady in the pic with Khali is supposedly Khali's wife-Harminder Kaur. Is this really his wife or someone who got her photo taken with Khali?!

By: noblekinsman

noblekinsman — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:34:15 +0000

Add Prince Fielder and Ricky Williams (vegan) to the list of veggie big boys, though Fielder’s power numbers are down since the shift this summer – likely not a result, but still.

By: narayan

narayan — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:27:30 +0000

Jyotsana : Since you mentioned Dara Singh I presume you were responding to my comment and not Nayagan’s. Perhaps you are suffering from Nayagan overload.

By: Suki Dillon

Suki Dillon — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:09:22 +0000

Please, it's clear who gets shafted by ignorance and who doesn't. the closest they come to offending the WASP was "IRS" and actually, they threw an anti-jewish epithet, as it expanded to "Irwin R. Sheister"

But Tatanka, Samba Simba, Razor Ramon, Yokozuna, among others, were straight up stereotypes.

Ludvig Borga{Finland],Skinner[Australia],The Mountie[Canada],and on and on. There have been more then several redneck wrestler from the south who had made out to be dumb. I can recall seeing an Irish midget wrestler that was major sterotype. William Regal is the stuck up Brit.

About 15 years ago in the early 90's, The Mountie was major story in Canada and as a result when ever we wrestled in Canada he had to go by his real name.

By: HMF

HMF — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:11:50 +0000

I've had the priviledge of meeting and training with UFC fighters and without a doubt, those skillz are mad real.

Chuck Lidell?

WWE is an equal oppurtunity offender, I have been watching since it was the WWF.

But Tatanka, Samba Simba, Razor Ramon, Yokozuna, among others, were straight up stereotypes.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:21:42 +0000

WWE is an equal oppurtunity offender, I have been watching since it was the WWF. I liked the old school better than some of the new crap that is going down,The great Khali is boring as a wrestler Sonjay Dutt needs to get more props than him.

By: jyotsana

jyotsana — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:07:18 +0000

Nayagan,

I have seen Indian style WWF bot in Bombay and in Calcutta. Wrestling season was marked by the poster war with the fight promoters pasting blood curdling threats from the foreign wrestlers – Haystack Calhoun etc – threatening a newbie like Baljeet – Randhawa’s son. By the time I got to see them, the great Dara had retired but Randhawa was still going strong. There were a number of junior wrestlers too who were sparring partners for the senior ones and gladly took the falls and piledrivers all evening before the main show started. Although the moves are scripted the falls are for real, and I have seen the wrestlers cut and bruised all over. Randhawa had genuine strength and could take on two heavies toether hefting them off the ground with either arm. No faking that. The crowd consisted of plenty of bhaiyyas and gwalas from Borivili, sardar cab drivers from Koliwada, tambis from Dharavi and Sion, and Ganpats from all over. And trust me quite a few of them were tough enough to wrestle! Great fun!

By: narayan

narayan — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:08:00 +0000

I believe this kind of wrestling was introduced in India in the mid 50s. It was called American Freestyle Wrestling. Even as kids we knew it was more showmanship than sport. At the time the good guy was Dara Singh, who looked like a buff Dharmendra and was later a successful film star. The bad guy invariably was King Kong, a fat nasty-looking piece of work with a shaven head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Singh http://www.punjabilok.com/misc/movies/dara_singh.htm

By: DizzyDesi

DizzyDesi — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:37:32 +0000

Traditionally Wrestling and bodybuilding in India (esp North) has gone together.

Although a few eat meat, the diet is usually vegetarian (The Hanuman influence). Lots of milk though.

Some nice info in this book. http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft6n39p104&brand=eschol